This 1903 view of Charterhouse
Road was taken from Frith Hill, probably by the photographer
who took the picture of Peperharow
Road, Godalming, 1903; the two pictures were
taken from the same position.

Charterhouse School can be seen on the skyline on the left
and there are a few properties set back from the left hand
side of Charterhouse Road - some of which were the school's
boarding houses - though most of the land beside the road
was still undeveloped. Of large buildings top, right
of centre and to the left of the arrow, is Bodeites
which was also a Charterhouse masters' house where the pupils
boarded. Hodgsonites is to its left but is largely hidden by
trees.

The large house surrounded by trees on the right, near the
bottom, is now known as Fairhill but in the inter war years
it was given the name "Dibrugarh".* The property
had been bought by a surgeon in the Indian Army, Lt-Col Asher
Leventon, who retired there in 1923-4. He possibly named his
home "Dibrugarh" because
the terraced position of the house reminded him of the hills
of northern India. Equally, the name may have reminded him of
happier times in India. Born in Leicester in 1870, he qualified
as a surgeon in Dublin in 1894 and was commissioned into the
Indian Medical Service the following year. He was the
superintendent of the Berry White Medical College and Hospital
in Dibrugarh (now the Assam Medical School). He became a CIE,
and ended his career as superintendent of the Campbell Medical
School in Calcutta. He sent this postcard to his relatives,
marking his home with an arrow, two years before he died in
1938.

* Dibrugarh is in the state of Assam in India and the city
is the headquarters of the Dibrugarh district.